Electronic Tach
01-15-2018, 12:53 PM
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Electronic Tach
My mechanical tach is giving me trouble (I have already lubed the cable with dry graphite) and since replacing the cable looks like a PITA, I'm wondering if anyone has installed one of the electronic tach conversion kits available at zip/wilcox, etc. and would share with me how that went. TIA
01-15-2018, 05:24 PM
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Changing the cable is not that tough. Looks a lot worse than it is. Takes 2 people.
Have you pulled the cable off of the distributor to test it with a drill? It may be that the gears in your distributor are going away.
Have you pulled the cable off of the distributor to test it with a drill? It may be that the gears in your distributor are going away.
01-15-2018, 05:54 PM
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Thanks for the reply but at this point I'm pretty sure it's the tach itself not the cable and since I have to tear the dash apart I was looking to get info about the electronic conversion
01-15-2018, 05:56 PM
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Thanks that's great to hear . . . Did you hook the power up to your fuse block (ign) ??? Where did you ground it ??? I have an mad ingition so I already have a tach output so that part will be easy. Any info you can provide on the install will be greatly appreciated. FYI: I have a 73 so everything should be pretty much the same
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01-17-2018, 05:32 AM
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Thanks that's great to hear . . . Did you hook the power up to your fuse block (ign) ??? Where did you ground it ??? I have an mad ingition so I already have a tach output so that part will be easy. Any info you can provide on the install will be greatly appreciated. FYI: I have a 73 so everything should be pretty much the same
One wire to fuse box (ignition fuse) , one to tach output and one to ground.